The second part of breaking up PR https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/9116 Summary: - Add `TextElement` / `ByteRange` to protocol user inputs and user message events with defaults. - Thread `text_elements` through app-server v1/v2 request handling and history rebuild. - Preserve UI metadata only in user input/events (not `ContentItem`) while keeping local image attachments in user events for rehydration. Details: - Protocol: `UserInput::Text` carries `text_elements`; `UserMessageEvent` carries `text_elements` + `local_images`. Serialization includes empty vectors for backward compatibility. - app-server-protocol: v1 defines `V1TextElement` / `V1ByteRange` in camelCase with conversions; v2 uses its own camelCase wrapper. - app-server: v1/v2 input mapping includes `text_elements`; thread history rebuilds include them. - Core: user event emission preserves UI metadata while model history stays clean; history replay round-trips the metadata.
codex-core
This crate implements the business logic for Codex. It is designed to be used by the various Codex UIs written in Rust.
Dependencies
Note that codex-core makes some assumptions about certain helper utilities being available in the environment. Currently, this support matrix is:
macOS
Expects /usr/bin/sandbox-exec to be present.
When using the workspace-write sandbox policy, the Seatbelt profile allows
writes under the configured writable roots while keeping .git (directory or
pointer file), the resolved gitdir: target, and .codex read-only.
Linux
Expects the binary containing codex-core to run the equivalent of codex sandbox linux (legacy alias: codex debug landlock) when arg0 is codex-linux-sandbox. See the codex-arg0 crate for details.
All Platforms
Expects the binary containing codex-core to simulate the virtual apply_patch CLI when arg1 is --codex-run-as-apply-patch. See the codex-arg0 crate for details.